England, France & Russia dominate their pools on Day 1 of the tournament being hosted in Kazan. This 2015 Series sees teams battle it out for the European Championship, Olympic Games & WSWS qualifier places.

A small but patriotic crowd saw current European Champions and hosts dominate pool A, winning comfortably over Italy, Portugal & Scotland. They will play Wales in the Cup Quarter-Final. The other Cup Quarter-finals will see 6 other teams look to take a positive step to the European Championship, Rio and/or the WSWS Qualifier; 6-Nations rivals England will play Ireland whilst France will face Italy and the Netherlands who hosted the final leg of the recent WSWS will play WSWS core team Spain.

The local crowd were also treated to seeing the final of the Russian Women’ s Sevens Championship won by Krasnoyarsk.